MPs take control of order paper. Boris loses 2 votes attempting to get a general election. Opposition parties pass law removing no deal option and requiring him to ask EU for extension if a deal not agreed. (Will he refuse, go to jail and win an election…).
Whip removed from 21 Tories who voted against the government. Supreme court rules prorogue unlawful so bunch of wallies return to their seats so that they can try to prevent Brexit.
Time this lot went!!
Mugabe dies.
Saudi oilfields bombed by Yemen rebels – ie Iran
Thomas cook collapses
Rugby world cup starts
UK delivers final proposal to EU
Boris Brexit
MC win charity shield
Football season starts MC Liv look good
England loose 1st test draw 2nd win 3rd at the last gap
Boy thrown from tate modern 8th floor
USA 2 mass shootings in 24 hrs (250 in 7 months!)
USA and China stepping up trade war
Boris at G7 putting pressure on European leaders. Announcing spending pledges as though there were an election coming….Prorogues parliament for a few days for a queens speech (or maximise pressure on Brexit hating MPs). MPs likely to try to prevent No Deal option and go for another extension. How can you negotiate with the EU if you take no deal off the table!! Boris will likely try to get an election under these circumstances.
Pound at new lows against dollar and Euro
Rain forest fires in Brazil
2 hot spells – Europe and UK records
Big hurricane causing destruction in the Bahamas, may be heading for central Florida
Boris made it
Trump ‘go back to where you come from’ to coloured Democratic women
England win world cup cricket – luckily
Ursula von de Leyen elected eu commision president
50 yrs since moon landing
golf open in NI – irish winner
ebola spreading
Boris PM – brexit supporting cabinet – 17 changes ‘bloodbath’
No ifs or buts leave 31st October – backstop must go – means it – 2bn funding
EU say deal cannot be changed
NHS immediate funding released
?election soon
Conservatives loose welsh seat to Lib Dems – tactical voting and Brexit party drain Conservative votes
Pound weakens
38.7C record – flooding in Derbyshire – Dam cracking causes evacuation of village
Football Good Politics Interesting
Liverpool and Chelsea win Euro leagues
Trump state visit – he talks to Boris and Farage but not Corbyn
D Day 75 years on events
England lose to Netherlands in Nations league
May out, Boris and Hunt doing hustings for party members to elect leader who becomes PM
Rain most of month – end=heatwave France 45C
A few extreme weather events – global warming not proven
Women world cup England in semis but lose to a better team USA
Iran blows up oil tankers then US turns up pressure
UK/Gibraltar stop Iranian oil tanker heading for Syria
Cricket world cup – England underperform but through to final stage
There have been Royalty events but I’m not interested
Footie Fab Politics Poor
Champions league Liverpool Barcelona 4-0 vs 0-3 , Ajax vs Tottenham 3-3 agg (2-1 down then 2-3)
so Liv v Tot final!!
ManC win Premiership by 1 point vs liverpool
Chelsea and Arsenal in Europa Cup Final!!
Local Elections indicate “plague on both your houses”
Economy still doing well
May in Brexit talks with Labour ends in predictable nothing
Farage creates Brexit party which goes on to dominate Euro elections – Lab and Con decimated
Trump China talks stall and increased tariffs result
US bans trading with Huawei (scared of there technology leadership?)
May resigns leading to enough leadership candidates to make a football team including subs
Will Boris make it??
I told you not to mention it
Brexit staggers on. Speaker rules that same motion cannot be repeated but May produces a valid variation which is rejected (3rd time).
MPs vote to take control of the process and produce 8 options which when voted on are all defeated !!
May initiates negotiations with labour to try to get something through (=suicide note?) requests EU delay to leaving to June, offered end October (with flex option) – Macron stirring. Labour maintaining a decisive position of no commitment to anything.
European elections looming on 23rd May – Farage launches Brexit party.
New IRA kills journalist during rioting in Londonderry (accident…)
Wikileaks’ Assange kicked out of Ecuadorian embassy and arrested for bail evasion
Man City and Liverpool fighting for Premiership – City OK if they win all their matches
Chaos
Brexit – May loses 2nd attempt to get her deal through parliament, then 3rd (after speaker rules no attempt possible with same proposition).
MPs vote to take control of the process – no deal voted off (is this a good idea from a negotiating point of view…)
MPs debate 8 possible alternative options – no majority for any!!
EU extends exit to 12 April
Champion league 4 Engish teams in last 8
NZ 49 dead in mosque attack
Utrecht tram shooting
MPs Screwing
Politics in a mess – 9 leave labour (antisemitism etc), 3 leave conservatives (Brexit)
MPs seem intent on screwing Brexit – May gets some improvement to Backstop terms but not much party support
16 year old guilty of rape and murder of 6 year old !
venezuela – Maduro blocks US aid at border.
High level of teenage killings by stabbing
Don’t mention the B word
May’s brexit deal defeated by 230 MP votes. Corbyn ducks out of talks. MPs later vote for ‘alternative arrangements’ to backstop. Good luck with EU on that!
US government is shutdown for 4 weeks – Trump still hasn’t got his wall
China lands on back side of moon – uncomfortable
Gatwick shut for 24 hours by drone
Venezuela in Crisis
Alex Salmond accused of sexual crimes
Bomb explodes in NI
O2 data network out for 24 hours
China launches robot mission to moon
Party has vote of no confidence in May – she wins
Brexit vote deferred to January – would have lost – EU not helping
Apple iphone sales poor vs expectations – share price has big drop
FTSE down by 10% since earlier in the year
Corbyn seen to mutter ‘Stupid Woman’ in parliament – denies it